ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cultural Relativism, Thick Description, Evolutionism
14 Dec 2015
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Note: if (from readings) is written next to a term, this means you are expected to be familiar with it from our reading even if it was not covered at length in the lecture. The guided reading questions are designed to focus on important aspects of that term. Many other terms were discussed in detail both in the reading and in class. Lecture one: introduction: questions and answers, the riddle of the sphinx, diachronic and synchronic, making the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Lecture two: nature and culture: nature and culture, story of the blind men and the elephant, cultural relativism, coming of age in samoa, epistemology, the pattern that binds. Lecture three: anthropology before anthropologists: savagery and barbarism, man in the state of nature", the social contract, geographic determinism, the primacy of individuality vs the primacy of society.
